Open AccessProgress in understanding the inner magnetosphere
Author(s) -
Goldstein Jerry,
Spasojevic Maria,
Shprits Yuri
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2012eo360008
Subject(s) - magnetosphere , ionosphere , physics , coupling (piping) , geophysics , plasma , atmospheric sciences , astrobiology , materials science , nuclear physics , metallurgy
Inner Magnetosphere Coupling 2; Los Angeles, California, 19–22 March 2012 Solar activity can energize Earth's magnetosphere. Coupled plasma interactions—involving multiscale electromagnetic fields, currents, and waves—either dissipate this energy into the ionosphere (to influence upper atmospheric chemistry and possibly climate) or store it in belts of highly energetic particles in the inner magnetosphere. Decades of effort have advanced knowledge of this system, but understanding of the coupling processes is still very incomplete.